Futile CPR. Always wrong? MP3

Is it always wrong to perform futile CPR? That was the question posed by Dr. Robert Truog in the February 11 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. The question prompted a great deal of debate in an email discussion group sponsored by Dr. Rosemary Flanigan at the Center for Practical Bioethics, as she discusses here. (March 5, 2010)